The Omaha Daily Bee.
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ESTABLISHED JUNE 10, 1871.
OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1902 TEN PAGES.
SINGLE COPY FIVE (IMS.
TURNS DOWN SILVER
lew Democracy Meets the Isme 8quarely
and Cries PeoctrL
OLD-TIME LEADERS TURN PARTY ABOUT
Xx-GeTeraer Heracg Boiei Leads the Fight
Igaimt Ire Coinage.
CRYANITES FORCE IT TO A DIRECT ISSUE
PafeaUd is Committee Ion aw Fight in
Oonraotion, with lama Eeiult
PAY LITTLE ATTENTION TO THE TICKET
Fine? Go Bracing and tha Coi
tlou Karnes Thoa Willing
Accept he Honor by
Acclamation.
to
Secretary Of But RICHARD BTTRKB
Auditor J. 8. M U'EN
attorney General JOHN B. DENISoN
Judaea Supreme Court
" ! THOMAS STAPLETON
J. H. CjlMC'K
jYeanurer A. U. CHAPMAN
Railroad Commissioner
THOMAS DEN SON
Clerk Burn me Court JBS8W TRIPP
.Jteporter Supreme Court. ..JOHN LALTON
(FYom a Staff Correspondent.)
DE8 MOINES, Sept. . (Special Tele
gram.) Not until the democratic atate con
vention bad been In session balf a day, not
Until tbe apeecbea of the chairman had been
-.. it tin full Mrlret had been
nominated by acclamation did the .really
Interesting rart of the democratic atata
convention begin. It wn after 6 o'clock
when the reaolutlona committee reported.
1i committee had been In eeaalon ainca
Boon. Th .eport waa read by ex-Governor
, Bote. whu for the flrat time alnca he waa
. , AlmsnM a candidate faced an Iowa demo
i. 'watte convention. 'The reading occupied
half an hour. The report led off with a
plank which merely declared "Anew our
' faith In the fundamental principles of the
''f democratic party and renew .our allegiance
thirerto." The rest of the platform re
, lated to trusta, tariff freight ratea, in
Junctlona, ate.
When the report waa presented 8. A.
Brewster of Creaton, ona of tha four all
' verltea on the committee, presented a
' ' aubstltute for the preamble specifically en
'tiorelng the Kansas City platform. This
was signed by four. The committee ra
il ported that there had been an agreement
a to tha division of tlnia for debate be
twMn thnait whn favnreil the endorsement
and those opposed. This waa tbe algnai
(or a two-hours' debate among the glanta
of the party and a finer exblbtlon of rough
and tumble debating haa not been wit
nessed In any atata contention In Iowa.
Champion of Silver.
Those who spoke for silver were Colonel
Veckey of Slgourney, J. J. She of Council
Bluffs, George Rhlnehart of Nawton, Walt
Butler of Dea Molnea and General Jamaa
B. ' Wearer. Those who debated for the
majority report were Horaoa Bolea of
Watarlea.. R II.. JQaahor -ot Wtrlo and
A- Vanwagenen of Sioux City. Tha debate
at tlmea waxed warm and worda apokeu
- Were keen. Tbe silver men In their dea-
, peratlon virtually threatened to bolt the
ticket and predicted If tha majority report
waa adopted the republican plurality thl
year would be 150,000. Rlnehart pleaded
a a republican who had come over in 1894
on tne bene! mat tne aemocrs.uo party
meant what it aald. Weaver pleaded aa a
populist who bad now been with tha party
two yeara. Mackey pleaded aa one who
lad become democratic in war tlmea to
atand by free silver. Shea declared tt waa
either repudiation or reaffirmation and ac
cuaed those who favored the majority re
port of being emlasarles of the republicans.
On tha other band, Horaoa Bolea waa the
Commanding figure of tha entire conven
tion and he pleaded with the convention
f to turn to live issues. "To us," ha aald,
tha free coinage of sliver at the exact
-atlo of It to 1 in Iowa and In tha United
States ia today aa dead aa any Issue that
over was burled. This la not saying that
It may not become alive again, but wa
recognize tha fact aa it exist." Bashor,
who had atumped tha eountry for Bryan
In two campaigns, ahowed that ainca 1896
tha democratic vote haa been steadily de-
v ellning In Iowa. Judge Vanwagenen had
alao been a free allver man, but aald It j
tee not an issue.
Burr th Silver Issue.
The vote waa taken on the aubatltuta
With the result that tha free allver men
muatered 844 vote to 884 for the oppo
nents of allver, after which the majority
report waa adopted aa the platform of tha
party on motion of Walt Butler, a rank
free allver man.
Tha. debate ahowed that tha resolutions
commute had had a hard struggle and tha
four ailverltea had refused all overturea
for a compromise. Tha result in tha con
vention marks a distinct fchange in tha
party in thla atate and hundred of gold
democrats will tbla year take part in tha
campaign.
Enthusiasm I tracking.
jbq cuutwuwuu waa ooiaoie cmeny tor
Its lack of enthusiasm and small num
bers. Not for many year have so few
persons attended any atate convention of
the democratic party aa thla year. When
tha convention waa called to order at 10:30
o'clock there waa Just 865 delegates pres
ent by actual count, not halt of tha num
ber to w'jlch the countlea were entitled.
A large Dumber of the countlea war not
represented at all and otbera by only
ona or two persons. The enthusiasm was
all expended In reference to tha question
of reafflrmln free allver or not dnlnv an
That waa . all that tha delegatea bad
though about up to tha time for making
nominations. The only census controlled
by the fre sliver men wer those of th
Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth dis
tricts. Ia the Third district tha Dubuque
. delegation, which has alwaya been for fre
allver, war strongly against It. Tha See
end and First districts were solidly agalnat
allver. Th Ninth district waa practically
solid against it.
Tha reaolutlona commute waa composed
. of the following persons: J. J. Seerley,
Burlington; E. H. Thayer, Cl!nton Horace
Bolea, Waterloo; H. C. Bishop, Elkader:
John R. Caldwell, Tama; John P. Organ,
Council Bluffs; and A. Van Wagenea, Stoux
City, all opposed to reaffirmation; and S.
A- Brewster. Ottumwa; C. O. Holly, Des
Molnea; E. Q. 8iuart. Charlton, and Ed
ward McDonald, Carroll, for indorsing th
Kansas City platform.
Mat Central Committee.
Th membership of th atata committee
' araa made up aa follows:
First District N. C. Kobrt. Tort Maul
P' son, re-elecied.
, ' ' second Llatrlct 8. W. Mercer. Iowa City
(Continued ea Fourth. Pag.)
HUNGARIANS PUNCHING HEADS
Rioter Around A cram Beat Captain
Willi and Wife and Fore
Guard to Fire.
LONDON, Sept. 4. In a dispatch from Vi
enna the correspondent of the Daily Mail
glvea an unconfirmed rumor that tha Ser
vians at Agram have retaliated and ma pe
ered the Croatian.
AORAM, Hungary, Sept. 8. The procla
mation of martial law thla afternoon has
been followed by tbe bringing Into town
and posting of more battalions of troops.
The rioters have been overawed by the
soldiers and thla evening they are quiet. .
Opposition newepapera have been con'
flsrated and the Irbobrat, In which the ar
ticles which caused the riot appeared, will
not be published during the continuance of
the disturbance. A mob In the village of
Vraboe atoned a detachment of gendarmes.
The latter replied with a volley, killing one
of the rlotera and wounding several otbera.
Many houses were wrecked and aarked
last night. The rage of the mob waa first
directed against the house of Captain
Wltaa, a retired army officer, who yea
terday fired on the mob, wounding a man.
Th rlotera erected barriers, tor up th
fencea, smashed tha window and wer pro
ceeding to storm the place when the militia
dispersed them. The mob, however, soon
reassembled and returned and the rioters
forced their way into tha house, which
they wrecked. Captain Wltaa and hla wife
escaped. Tha rioters then Backed the
houses of a number of servants and de-
strayed the residence of a merchant. Al
though a atata of elege baa been declared
at Agram and despite tha fact that the
principal buildings and aquarea are occu
pied by troopa, the rioting la Increasing.
Numbers of peasanta have arrived here
from the country to help th Croatian.
Barricades are being erected and a virtual
atate of rebellion ex lata.
Early today mob plundered Servian
shop, pulled their stocks in th atreeta
and set fire to them. Captain Wltaa, who
waa returning to hia home, waa aelxed at
the door of hia home and dragged into
the street, where the old man, deaplt hla
plteoua entreatlea for mercy, waa terribly
beaten. The captain waa eventually taken
to a hospital In a aeriou condition. Many
rlotera have been arrested. Reinforcements
of troops are occupying tha atresia.
GLACIER SWEEPS A VALLEY
I Reported to Have Destroyed
Twenty Villages and Killed Seven
Hundred Persona.
VIENNA, Sept. !. Correspondence re
ceived here from TlHls, Trancaucaala,
Russia, gives a graphic account of a dis
aster which occurred August 27, when aa a
result of a landslide, supposed to have been
due to seismic disturbance, aome twenty
villages were destroyed and nearly 700 per
sons were killed.
On tha northern slope of Mount Kasbek
Ilea tha watering place of Tmenkau. Early
in the morning of Auguat 17 aubterranean
dlaturbancea were noted at Tmenkau, but
tha hundreda of bathera In tbe hot aprtnga
there acouted the Idea of a catastrophe and
in apita of warning continued their bath
ing. At 7 o'clock of that evening the entire
valley wher tbe hot aprlnga are situated
waa filled with a deafening noise resembling
thunder amt.Tuu rumtnings .wer-hxd.
The ' valley stream walled to the dimen
sions of a mighty river, and aweaplng along,
tt carried with It huge blocks of rock and
Ice. Then the bathera tried to escape, but
It waa too late. . Tbe entire northern alop
of Mount Kaabeck, with the glacier above
began to move rapidly. Village after vil
lage waa awept away and everything In the
path of tha landslide waa destroyed. Within
few minutes the valley, nearly twelve
mile long, had been devastated by a wall
of rock. Ice and earth. The valley was
completely filled up to a depth of nearly
1,000 feet by the matter hurled into It. A
fierce hurricane raged at the time and the
bodlea of people and animala were flung to
a great height and dashed against th rocka.
FLORENCE STRIKE A FAILURE
Men Who Have Not Retarned to Work
Ready to Do So, bnt Place
Are Filled.
FLORENCE, Italy, Sept. 1 The atrlke
here began hecauae the metal workers em
ployed by the Plgnone iron worka were dls
contented over tha fact that the dtrectora
of the company executed ordera for a Arm
at Leghorn during the recent atrlke there,
Thla dissatisfaction led to friction and
tha workmen of tha Plgnone worka made
demanda which the directors of the com
pany refuaed to entertain. The Plgnone
company began dismissing the malcontenta
in It employ and the atrlke enaued.
Ona of tha directors of tba Plgnone com
pany aroused the enmity of the workman
because he refused to recognise tha labor
organization and the strikers demanded
bla removal. They alao attempted to aet
lire to hla house.
The labor leaguea, assisted by th social
1st party, then engineered a general atrika
with the view of preventing tha defeat of
the Plgnone workmen. Tbe movement haa
resulted In the complete defeat of the
workmen; tha composltora have decided to
resume work and today only the Plgnone
and other metal workers, numbering 1,500
men, are on a atrlke. Most of "be placea
of these men have, meantime, y n filled
and work la proceeding.
MACEDONIAN UNDER ARREST
President of th Committee le Placed
In rnstody and Taken to
Dnbmltsa.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. S. General Zont
choff, presliont of th Macedonian commit
tee, haa been arrested at Dubmltsa and
brought here. The arrest of other members
of th committee la expected.
The Macedonian committee recently held
a congress at Sofia. M. Sarafoff, formerly
president of tha committee, waa then ac
cused of misappropriation of tunda and of
being tha chief agent In the kidnaping of
Miss Stone, the American missionary.
A division "resulted and tha adherent of
M. Sarafoff held a aeparata congress and
elected another committee.
PERFORATES 'FRISCO EDITOR
Prealdent Wllllama of Jockey Clan
Pata Ballets Tkrestk Frederick
' .Marlott'e Anatomy.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. I. Thomaa H.
Williams. Jr., a well known horseman, pres
ident of the California Jockey club, shot and
seriously wounded Frederick Mariott, pub
lisher of the San Francisco News Letter,
tonight at Marlon's residence. Mariott was
shot three tlmre, on shot breaking hla leg,
another passing through his hand and the
third entering hla body. Hla recovery is
doubtful. Tha shooting la supposed to have
grown out of article printed by Marlutt re
fleeting on Williams.
PRESIDENT BAER ON STRIKE
Baading Company's Executive Answers
Quay aid Fenrese.
DECLARES MINERS' WAGES ARE HIGH
Telia the Senator that to Raise the
Figure Means t Foree Penile to
lie Bllsnlnosi Instead
of Anthracite,
8. President
laer of the Reading company and
-. Benatora Quay and Penrose
I'D.
held a . -rence this afternoon in the
executive 'be Reading company in
this city in v -anthracite coal min
ers' atrlke was hly discussed. At
the conclusion of .-onference President
Baer Issued a lengthy reply to the two sen
ator. Among other things he aald:
"I recognize that tt Is your right and your
duty aa senators, representing the great
state of Pennsylvania, to do whatever can
legitimately be done to end a atrlke that ao
seriously affects business and brings ao
much suffering to tha women and children
of the coat regions. The newspapers' story
that I said 'The atrlke was a private affair
which did not concern the public,' la a reck
less fabrication.
Right In the Cnae.
"Now, what I have said, is that th man
agement of the business belong to the own
ers. In tbe case of the coal companies tbe
law casts the management on the director
and officers, whose responsibility la to their
stockholders, to the state and to the public.
The right of the stockholders la to have
good management and a fair return on their
Investment. The obligation to tbe state is
to conduct the business in strict conformity
to the laws it haa established. The duty to
the public la, ad far aa practicable, to con
duct the business so aa to add to tbe com
mon welfare.
The coal operators aay they cannot mine
coal because the miners make demanda
which render it impossible to mine coal
profitably, and tha state haa enacted laws
prohibiting tba employment of men in tbe
mlnea unlesa they have worked two yeara in
anthracite mines and therefore they cannot
for the time being mine coal. How, then,
under these circumstances, can there be
any violation of publio duty? If we yield to
the extravagant demands of the miners we
will lose money. If we attempt to increaae
the price of coal we will destroy tha Indus
trie depending on anthracite fuel. If we
Increase the price on tbe domestic sixes wa
will be called robber baron, oppressors of
the poor, monopolisms and enemiea of man
kind. Make Fonr Propositions.
We have concluded,, therefore, that our
duty to ourselves and to the public will best
aa served by standing firmly on theae prop
ositions: First That the wares nald In the an-
thraclta coal rea-tona are. comDared with
the wanes paid In like employment, fair
and Just, and that men willing to work
nonesuy can earn more money on win ir'
ent baaia of waaee than In any other ln
duatry engaged In producing common art!
r'u at necessity In tha United State.
Eecond That waa-es cannot be Increased
without Increasing the price of coal, and to
Increase the price or coal will restrict tne
marab.jnd..iclv--UM. uubUe-ieme- ttu-
mlnous coal, a cheaper and more abundant
fuel, and that a restricted marKet win cur
tail production and result In depriving the
miners of regular employment.
Third That we are not na-htlna- labor or
sanitations. We fully recoitnlie the riant
of men to organise to protect themselvee
from oppression ana to Denent tnemseives
Ir. any legitimate way. but we do oppose
their unreasonable interference with the
discipline and orderly management of our
business. We will not permit them to se
lect our employes. Neither politics, relig
ion, nationality nor membership In labor
organisation shall bar any competent man
from working for us. We are righting tho
battle of freedom for the Individual and
his riKht to labor on hla own terma.
Fourth That It Is by reason of varying
conditions at each mine Impracticable to
adopt a uniform scale of wages for the
whole region, but at each colliery every
complaint will be taken up and Investi
gated by the superintendents and adjusted
whenever It Is Just. I personally offered
to Mitchell and hla district president to
go with them and investigate any griev
ar.ee.
Nothing; to Arbitrate.
"Ton see, senator, none of theae things
can be the subject of arbitration. You
cannot arbitrate a queatlon of wagea when
an increase will destroy the business and
a decreaae will be unacceptable to the
workmen. We cannot arbitrate a question
aa to whether mining operation and bus
iness generally ahall be managed under the
common-sens rule of law and equity by
the owner and the servants trey have se
lected, or by a labor organisation. You
cannot arbitrate the right to protect your
property and your workmen from the mob
rule of labor organizations who boldly pro
claim a purpose to destroy property and
endeavor to make their proclamation effec
tive by killing and Injuring their fellow
workmen who refuae to Join in their law
lessness. When John Mitchell ordered tho
engineer, firemen and pumpmen to desert
their posts he knew that unlesa the opera
tor could supply their placea th mine
would be destroyed, and with their de
structlon 140,000 men with their wives and
children dependent upon their labor would
be deprived of work for a long time.
"The operators were compelled to em
ploy police at their own expense to guard
the new men employed to man the pumps
to save their mlnea. The guards and the
law authorizing them are denounced, and
when private citizen like Bcddall are
murdered the atate authorities are de
nounced for sending troops to preserve the
peace. Today that gallant aoldier. General
Gobin, who fought with such distinction ia
our civil war, and than whom no Juster
man Uvea, la bitterly maligned for pro
tecting the property and Uvea of Pennsyl
vania citizens. Can such questions be ar
bitrated V
Willie to Show Booka. -President
Baer devotee considerable
apace to the attempts at arbitration made
by the Civic Federation. He saya every
phase of the caae uaa fairly and fully dis
cussed and that the coal companiea offered
to produce any booka tbat would throw
any light on the matter, ahowed the bal
ance sheets of various companiea. pointed
out that tha three an'.hraclte coal-carrying
companiea, th Readlug, Lehigh Valley and
Erie bad not paid dividends on their stock
for years, produced tbe records ahowlng
coal salea and abowed bow 40 per cent of
tbe anthracite coal la aold in tbe market
below the cost of mining. The reply con
clude aa follows:.
You see, aenatora, w have discussed thl
whole subject fully and 1 have endeavored
to show you that sound bustnesa manage
ment make It Impossible to Increase wages.
W know that the wagea are fair and rela
tively high, and that If the leaders of th
bituminous mine workers had not. fur
selfish purpoats, Invaded th anthracite
fields our men would have continued to
work peacefully and contentedly.
City Trenaarer Is Shortv
WABASH, lnd.. Sept. . An Investigation
of th accounts of John Rose, for eight
years city treasurer, who disappeared Tues
day ulxbt, after a demand had been made
upon him to turn over th orflre to hi cue
ccaovr, reveals; a shortage of tlvuu,
WRIGHT SUGGESTS A PLAN
Commissioner of Labor Offer Rotation
for Miner' Strike and Slmllnr
Dlfllcaltles.
WASHINGTON, Sept. I. the report of
Carroll D. Wright, the commissioner of
labor, on the anthracite coal strike, was
made public today. -
Commissioner Wright finds that there la
no confidence existing between the employe
and their employers. Thl. be believe, i
one of the chief cause of the difficulties be-
ween the operators and miners, and saya
that it would be reasonable and Just for tbe
operators to concede at once a nine-hour
day for a period of alx m oaths a an experi
ment.
Hj auggeaia that there shculd be organized
Joint committee on conciliation composed
of repreaentatlvea of the operators and of
new union of anthracite employee, to
which all grlevancea ahould be referred for
investigation, and that their decision ahould
be final and binding upon all parties and
that there ahould be no interference with the
nonunion men.
In the course of bla report. Commissioner
Wright saya that the facta aeem to show
the officers of the miners' union, with per
haps one or two exceptions, believed that
many of the alleged wronga endured, by tba
miner might be corrected by appeala to
the employer. ' Their attempt, however, to
secure conferences between the repreaent
atlvea of the mine workera and the mine
operators proved fruitless and the mlnera
themselves decided that a atrlke ahould be
organlxed.
All the operator whom Mr. Wright met
disclaimed distinctly that tbv bad any an
tagonism to union labor aa such. They did
object seriously to aome of the methods
adopted by the union, and they felt that
when asked to make a contract with the
union the latter ahould put themselves In
a position to be pecunlarly responsible for
carrying out auch contracts.
The mlnera aee little difficulty in adopting
the system of payment by weight, but tbey
claim that they are systematically de
frauded by the arbitrary action of the
bossea, who determine, what deductions
ahall be made for impurttiee and they claim
they are defrauded wbea paid by the wagon
or car load.
When It la shown that coal, says Mr.
Wright, contained a varying quantity of
refuae aa it cornea from the mine. It is
difficult to aee the tore of the argument
why it ahould not be weighed and tbe miner
paid for the work he does. At leaat the
operatora. he thinka, ought to ahare in tha
loss of mining Impurities.
Tbe -demand of the mlnera that wares be
Increased 10 per cent in the ratea per ton
to those men who perform contract work
and 10 per cent reduction in the time of
tboae who work by the day. Is backed by
tbe atatement that after the ir.crease which
wm gruieu in isw, tne price of all com
modities in th mining region were ad
vanced accordingly. They urge that It la
exceedingly difficult for - them to live
properly on the present wagea.
The reduction of time is put forward by
the mlnera and backed by the atatement
that their work take only about 200 days
in a year and for the remainder of the time
they are practically - Idle. , The operators
meet thla demand with the atatement that
they are able to market only. 60 per .cent of
the capacity of their mineand that their
.rngrgea.jncUQiagjtivafjinpljig..
oi tne mlnea, etc.i go oa tWwenty-four
hours a day and every day.P. .n year.
The Increaae In wagea which tha men de
mand would mean about 46 centa Increase.
The total amount of wagea paid In the. an
thracite fields laat year la stated by the
operatora to have been about t66.000.000.
Tbe increaae under tbe original demand of
tbe Ohio mlnera, the operatora atate, would
be about 120,000,000.
COTTON CONDITION IS LOW
Staple Prodaet of Sonth Almoet Ten
Polnta Below Average for Past
;Ten Year.
WASHINGTON. Sept- I. Tha mnnthl. -
port of the statistician of the Department of
Agriculture, Issued at noon today, shows the
ave.wge condition of cotton on Aum
to have been 64, aa compared with 81.9 on
July IS, 71.4 on Auaruat 24. 1901: n r
September 1, 1900, and a ten-year average of
n
IO.. .
The present unprecedented Inw avr...
which 1 two-tenth of a point lower than
the condition of September 1, 1896, la due
maimy to tbe reports from Texas and Ala
bama. in both of which states the prevail
Ing conditions are nothing less than dlsaa
troua. The averagea of condition In the dlf
ferent ataUa are aa follows:
Virginia, 80; North Carolina, 80; South
Carolina, 74; Georgia, 68; Florida, 76; Ala
bama, 74; Mlasisslppl. 68; Louisiana. 70
Tcxaa, S3: Arkansas. 75: Ten
ouri, 73; Oklahomft, 76; Indian Territory. 6
WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL
Ordere and Routine of Treasury, In
terlor and Poatoffloo De
partments. (From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. I. (Special Tele
gram.) The comptroller of the currency
baa approved the National Livestock bank
of Chicago as reserve agent for the Flrat
National bank of Brooklyn, Ia.
The contract for carrying the mall from
Crow Lake to Funston, S. D., ha been
awarded to R. Y. Hazard of Funston.
Dr. G. W. Cornell haa been appointed
a pension examining aurgeon at Knoxvllla,
Ia,, and Charlea Bunce at Hastings, Neb.
Postmasters appointed: Nebraska Frank
Echram, Tarnoy, Platte county, vice A. C.
Leas, removed Iowa William J. Toohey
Juniata, Buena Vista county; Charlea Wild
man, Lynnvllle, Jasper county. South Da
kota William N. Hartupee, Wlnana, Rob'
arte county.
NO DUCHESSJN THE GROUP
Officer Deny that Higglnson's Caller
Had Ceaaaela Concealed Abont
Their Person.
WASHINGTON, Sept. I. Naval officers
who have Just returned to Washington
from Newport contradict absolutely tba
story that th duchess of Marlborough went
aboard Admiral Hlgglnson'a flagship. As
slstant Secretary Sanger with a party of
friend went alongside the flagship and
aaked permlaslon to com aboard, which
Admiral Higglnson granted, but the duch
ess waa not of tba party.
I alform Rate (or Missouri River.
NEW YORK. Sept. . At an Informal
meeting of the Trunk line officer held
her yesterday arraogementa were per-,
tected to maintain uniform rate on all
shipments of freight east bound from Mis
souri river points. Th trunk lines, it Is
added, will demand their full ahara of tba
regular tariff and any weatera road mak
ing cuta will hav to stand losses.
PELEE IS AS BAD AS BEFORE
Btoriti from Martialqu of Death
and
Daitruotion Are Oenfinned.
SOUFRIERE IS ALSO BELCHING LAVA
More Than Ono Thousand People
Known to Have Been Killed,
While tbe Loa to Property
Cnnnot Be Estimated.
CASTRIES, Island of St. Lucia, B. W. I..
Sept. 8. The tone of destruction of Satur
day nlgbt'a eruption of Mount Pelee, Island
of Martinique, paralleled that which de
stroyed the town 'of St. Pierre in May last,
but it spread aome five miles, mor east
ward.
The projection of destructive matter
southward from Mount Pelee wa almost
Identical with tbat of last May. The area
embraced Morne Rouge, the southern spur
of Mount Pelee, on which beautiful bill waa
the sanitarium of St, Pierre, dividing the
Capote and Champa Dor valleya on the
east and AJoupa Bouillon and Marie Reins
on the weat, the market gardens and cattle
farm which supplied St. Pierre.
Tha Inhabitants were removed from thla
area, and also from the villages of Lorraine
and Baese Point, at the base of Mount
Pelee, after the May catastrophe, but they
were sent back' by tha government last
week.
The gendarmerie cf Martinique officially
reporta that 1,060 persona were killed and
160 injured by the last shower of fiery
hall. Tbe war ahlp and the ateamer are j
taking the Inhabitanta from the coast vil
lages, where people of inland placea have
also gathered for safety.
Survivors who have reached Fort de
France describes the eruption aa being the
moat violent yet experienced. The deto
nations were heard at the ialand of St.
Kltts.
The St. Vincent volcano, the 8oufrlere,
waa In eruption simultaneously. Awful
detonatlona were heard along the aouthern
Islands to Trinidad.
PARIS, Sept. 8. The Martinique com
mittee met at the Ministry of Colonies to.
day and decided that $100,000 ahould be
Immediately aent to Martinique for dis
tribution among the sufferers from the last
eruption there.
The Martinique fund now amounta to
over $1,700,000, of which $300,000 haa been
distributed. This Is in addition to tho
$300,000 aent to the Island immediately
after the catastrophe of May and the sub
scriptions obtained in the United States
and other countriea which were aent direct.
A aum of over $1,400,000 la consequently
available for relief work.
TWENTY-SEVEN ARE INJURED
Faulty Rati Ditches Pnaaensjer Trnln
. on Santa Fe Nenr Brown
wood, Teisi,
FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. S. A defective
rail wrecked the weatbound passenger train
on tbe Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe railroad
last , night, fifteen miles east of Brown
wcd. Tex.; and the entire train waa rolled
over a .twenty-foot embankment. 'Twenty-
UK! ssof jsojifc ycrsurtdi oa, jr.U!iT'.i
Injured: -
Mr. R. W. Humphries, skull fractured;
will probably die.
Misses Alice and Kate Humphrey, dan
gerously hurt, not fatally.
Lynn and Agnea .Humphreys and two
Humphreya boys, badly bruised. All the
Humphreya are from Houston.
Mrs. K. B. Hasklna and three children.
Brownwood, bruised and cut on handa.
Jeff Crossland Temple, badly cut.
Mra. M. T. Gilbert and son, Cleburn,
badly cut on the head.
George Brownlee, Zephyr, Tex., face cut.
Robert Bradbury and Steve Hayes,
Zephyr, slightly Injured.
Miss Ana Johnson, residence unknown, a
teacher enroute to Bellinger, Tex., badly
Injured.
R. N. TJsselton, Temple, back sprained.
B. Maxwell, mall clerk, hip Injured.
Miss Delia Hill, Killen, head and handa
cut.
Miss Mary Adama, Georgetown, head cut.
Mra. Pulliam. Belmont, Gonzalea county,
shoulder apralned.
Lee Lebett, Waco, badly hurt.
B. F. Baker and J. W. Jackaon, Brown
wood, slightly bruised.
Lee Hall, Brownwood, cut on head.
Tbe train -was running on schedule time
when suddenly the engine and cars left the
track and, after Jumping over the tie for
a few yarda, the cars turned over the em
bankment. The injured were placed on a
relief train and taken to Brownwood thla
morning.
INVESTIGATING A HOSPITAL
Chleanw Coroner Makes C'harsre and
Bodlea of Those Who Died to
Be Bxhumed.
CHICAGO, Sept 8. Charge by Coroner
Traeger of carlessness In th administration
of tha Presbyterian hospital and a decision
to exhume the bodies of two women who
died mysteriously in that hospital were the
developmenta growing out of the poisoning
of Mrs. Moor by Miss Etherldge. The
bcdles to be exhumed to aid in the investi
gation were deatha which occurred in the
hospital Auguat 28. The husband of Mrs.
Katharine Dubskl will ask Judge Chetlaln
tomorrow for permission to take up the body
of his wife, which is burted in tbe Bohemian
cemetery, while Robert Moore, whose wife
admittedly waa poisoned, ts expected to
come from Rensselaer, lnd., to make prep
arations for disinterment of his wife, who ts
burled tn Hopeetpwn, 111. Relativea of Mra.
Maria Stewart are holding a conference
with a view of presenting a similar requst
to the court for an examination of her re
mains. Coroner Traeger'a charge of carelessness
is bssed on failure to report to him deaths
of Mra. Moore and Mra. DubakL The hos
pital authorltlea have confessed they wer
in doubt aa to the cause of death.
'They should have refused to issue death
certificate in each case," said th coroner.
"Then they should have reported th mat
ter to my office immediately."
Th hocpttal authorltlea atate in reply
that there wa nothing unusual attending
the deatha of the three women.
TWO . THOUSAND NECESSARY
PostoMce Clerka Deeld to Have la
anranee Depnrtment When that
Many Pollrlea Arc Aaaared.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. I. The National
Association of Postofflc Clerks today con
sidered plana for having their salary bill
become a law at the next aesslon of con
gress. It waa decided that when 2,000
membera ahould signify their willingness
to take out policies an insurance depart
ment would b established.
CONDITION OFJTHE WEATHER
Forecnot for Nebraska Fair and Warmer
Thursday and Friday.
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WOULD COMPEL ARBITRATION
Governor Stone Propose to Have Spe
cial Session Dispose of
Strike Troubles.
riTTSBURO. Pa., Sept. . "An extra
session of the legislature would cost the
atate lees money than It la costing to main
tain tbe militia In the anthracite region
to prevent and suppress riots."
In thoeewworda Governor W. A. Stone ad
dressed some of bis friends during hia
visit here concerning his purpose to call
an extra aeaslon of the Pennsylvania leg
islature and try to end the anthracite
atrlke. He is said to believe that by this
mean tbe strike could be terminated In
less than thirty days. The plan he pro
poses Is a compulsory arbitration law.
Under a carefully thought out acheme
which he has prepared a committee ap
pointed under his proposed law would ar
bitrate the atrlke whether the atrtkers
or operatora were willing or not. Ample
provision will be mad to compel both
sides to accept the decision. The prin
cipal feature la to compel the two parties
to submit showings to a third party for a
decision. The courts have repeatedly up
held the principle Involved.
The acheme Involve a sweeping appli
cation of tha principle of the Injunction,
both against capital and labor.
BRAMWELL, W. Va., Sept. 3. The situa
tion In the Flat Top coal field Is very alarm
ing. Tonight at Simmons' creek, as the non
union mlnera were leaving the mines, a vol
ley waa fired at them by strikers hidden on
the mountain side. Tha guarda returned the
fire. So far aa la known no one waa In
jured. The fire tn the Pocahontaa mine
contlnuea to rage, although two large
streams of water have been pouring into it
alnce yesterday. It Is said the Are haa ex
tended to the other three mlnea, to which
the chief entrances are from the West Vir
ginia side, and that there la no prospect of
subduing the flames soon. The loss prom
lses to be enormoua.
CUTS FREIGHT RATE ON SUGAR
St. Paul Make Flrat Move In Flnht
Against the Rail-Water
Lines.
CHICAGO, Sept. 8. (Special Telegram.)
Railroad westbound from Chicago are
about to enter into a determined atruggle
to regai and preaerve the Immense ton
nage originating east of here and destined
for Missouri river polnta and polnta fur
ther weat.
Tha initial move In the fight baa been
made by tbe St. Paul, which baa announced
a proportional rata on augar, effective next
Monday, of 12 cents from Chicago to Mia
aouri rtver .polnta. Thla rate will apply
u v all-ettger-voming fcom.'- thac aeaJhaard,
and the St. Paul's move will be followed
by other western llnea. Thla 1 merely a
teat caae, put in with a view of ascertain
ing th effect of such a rate on commodl
tie from the east.
The new augar rate is made to compete
with the water-rail route from New York
by the way of Galveaton and tha other gulf
port. The Mallory and Morgan ateamsblp
lines make a 33-cent rate on augar from
New York to Missouri river points.' This
la but a trifle In excess of the present rate
from Chicago to Missouri river points,' ao
that practically none of the traffic movea
across country. The low steamship rates
are made in connection with tbe railroad
llnea extending from tbe gulf porta to Mis
aouri river polnta, viz; The Missouri Pa
cific, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Kansaa City
Southern, Illinois Central and Houaton A
Texas Central.
CONVENTION ENDS IN A ROW
L'nlon Party In . Quaker State
Greatly Belles Its
Name.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8. The atate con
vention of the union party waa today
marked bv acenea of wild dlaorder which
resulted in a spilt and tbe holding oi two
.nnvnlnna. One faction of the party la
vnmd tha endorsement of the democratic
state ticket, headed by Robert E. Patt'aon
for rovernor. while the other faction fa
ored the republican ticket, headed by Sam
nel W. PennvDacker.
Each aide tried to get control or the con
vention machinery. In the mlxup pistols
and knlvna were flourished, aome men were
etruck by "black Jacks" and other by
chairs. The Pennypacker adnerenta
stormed the blatform and amid great cod
fusion Indorsed the republican ticket, tne
Pattlson taction under the marahalahlp of
Bocmtarv Rlter of the union party, retired
and assembled at the Continental hotel.
where Pattlson waa endorsed for governor
and Gutbrle for lieutenant governor. It la
believed that the whole proceedlnga will
be taken Into court.
KANSAS WOMAN FOR MURDER
Mra. Stella Gulnane la Held at Chanate
with Man Who Glvea
No Name.
CHANUTE, Kan., Sept. . Mra. 8tella
Gulnane and a man who refuses to give
his name were arrested here today tn con
nectlon with the murder In this city on
Thursday night laat of E. V. Dickey, a
stockman from Dewey, I. T., who waa killed
for bla money. Bail waa fixed at $10,000,
which neither could give. Mra. Gulnane
is 'the wlfa of William Gulnane, who waa
sent to the penitentiary from Cbanute
over a year ago for grand larceny.
Movement of Ocean Vessel Sept. 8.
At New York Arrived Oraf Walderaee,
from Hambura.
At Liverpool Arrived Noordland, from
Phlladelohla. via Oueenstown: Oceania.
from New Yorfc, via Uueenstown. Balled
Haverford, for Philadelphia, via Wueens
town; Teutonic, for New York, via Queens
town. .At Oueenstown Arrived New England,
from Boston, for Liverpool, and proceeded
without communicating, owing to a gale.
Sailed Ivernlu, for Liverpool, for Boston.
At Hong Kong Arrived Tartar, from
Vancouver, B. C. via Yokohama and Hloiro.
At tlenoa Arrived Cambroman, via til.
Michaels and Naples.
At Antwerp Sailed Nederland, for Phil
adelphia. At Krow Head Paseed New England,
from Hon ton, for Queenatown and Liver
pool. At Cherbourg 8-illed Kalserln Maria
ThereKla, from Bremen and Southampton,
for New York.
At Naplea Arrived I.ahn. from New
York, via Olbraltar and Uenoa, and pro
ceeded. At Southampton Arrived Philadelphia.
Sailed Kalserln Maria Theresa, from Bre
men, for New York, via Cherbourg.
NT IS HURT
Suffer Paiafal Bat Vat Sarioni Injuries
in CatMtrooha at PitUfield.
SECRET SERVICE AGENT CRAIG KILLED
Landau's Collision with Eleotrio Oar Van
the Taur'i Ending.
M0T0RMAN AND CONDUCTOR ARRESTED
Former Denies Early Warning, but Camot
Explain.
THEY ARE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER
Now Oat on Bull, but Will Be Held
for Grand Jury Roosevelt Haa
Returned on HI Yacht
to Oyster Bay.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y.. Sept. 8. Th yacht
Sylph with President Roosevelt aboard'
anchored off Oyster Bay shortly before 8:80
this evening.
PITTSFIELD, Masa., Sept. 8. The preel-
dent of tbe United States escaped a tragi
death by only a few feet in a collision be
tween hia carriage and an electric atreet
car tn thla city today, while cno of h
most trusted guards, Secret Service Agent
WHHam Craig, waa Instantly killed, and
David J. Pratt of Dalton, who was guiding
the horses attached to the vehicle, waa most
seriously injured. President Roceevelt hlm
aelf waa badly shaken up, but received only
a alight facial bruise. Secretary Cortelyou,
who occupied a seat directly opposite the
president, In tbe landau, austalned a minor
wound in the .back of the head, and Gov
ernor Crane, who aat beside the president,
extricated himself from the wreck prao
tlcally without a scratch. The carriage waa
demolished by the Impact of tho rapidly
moving car and the wheel horae on th aid
nearest tha car waa killed outright. Th
crew and passengers of the car escaped in
Jury. The president and party were driving
from this city to Lenox, through South
atreet, one of the principal thoroughfarea
of Plttsfleld, which waa lined with cheering
people, and the catastrophe occurred In
tbe plain view of hundreds whoae happlncsa
at the advent of the natlon'a chief waa
suddenly turned to grief.
Thousand had poured Into the city In the
early morning from the nearby country t
see and hear h pre:! Jest, as 3 hia at!aeaa
at the city park had been loudly cheered.
At the conclusion of the exercises he wished
to make a brief call 'on former Senator'
Dawes, whose house in Elm street Is but
a short distance from the park. Th presi
dent's carriage, In which be had ridden
from Governor Crane's home at Dalton,
waa accordingly driven to the Dawes resi
dence and carriages containing a number of
other gentlemen in the party followed.
President Roosevelt's call waa a abort one-.
and then tbe carriage returned to the city;
aquare, .-v ,, -i,c r . . ; . .
ttw,J,-.ratldn-of'th4 f 'iteeiaentr'"
After a few minutes' delay the Journey to
Lenox waa begun. Meanwhile the mounted
escort of police officers and the carriages
containing the newspaper correapondenta
who have accompanied the prea dent on hla
tour had atarted off ahead on the road, to
Lenox and were aome distance In advance of
the prealdent'a equipage. Three of four
other open carriages fell In line Immediately
behind the landau In which the prea dent
rode with Secretary Cortelyou and Oov
eronr Crane. Secret Service Agent Craig,
who throughout the New England tour be
been almost constantly at the president's
elbow, was on the driver's box beside
Coachman Pratt.
Out through South atreet la a broad,
smooth highway. The tracka of the Pitts
field Electrlo atreet railway are laid in th
oanter of tbe road, with ample room for
teams on each aide, and acorea of vehicles
of every description followed along thla
road behind the prealdent'a party. Shortly
after he left tbe park an electrlo car whtoh
had been filled with passengers at tbat
point, atarted toward Lenox, well behind
the procession. It passed all of tbe teama '
and waa about a mile and a half eut from
the city at the beginning of Howard hill and
waa nearly up to the prealdent'a carriage,
which waa traveling on the west a'd of tha
highway.
Just at the foot of Howard bill tba road
bends a little and teama are compelled
to cross th atreet railway tracka to the
east aide. The railroad then contlnuea at
one aide of the etreet, Instead of In tbe
center. Just at thla point the upgrade of
the hill begins, and but a short dlatance
beyond tho croaslng there la a narrew
bridge spanning a amall brook. The trol
ley car approached the road crossing un
der a good head of apeed, with gong
clanging, Just aa the driver of the presi
dent' carrier turned bla leaders to cross
th tracka. On each aide of the chief ex
ecutive's carriage rode two mounted
troopers of the local cavalry company and
the horsemen on the left of tbe landau
bad turned onto tbe track with tha trolley
car Immediately behind them, though aome
yard distant Alarmed by the clanging
gong, tbey both turned in their saddles
and waived vigorously to th motorman to
atop hla car. Almost at tba sama Instant
Governor Crane, who quickly precelved the
danger, rose to hi feet and likewise mo
tioned to the motorman.
When the trash Came.
Tha latter, in great excitement, des
perately tried to atop hla car, but It waa
too late. It crashed Into the carriage aa
a loud moan went up from tbe frenzied
onlooker who thronged tha roadside and
who, but a moment before, were cheerio
the president. The horsemen managed t
get th frightened animala out of the way
Just la time and tbe car atruck the rear
wheel of the carriage on tha left side and
ploughed through to tbe front wheel of the
vehicle, which received the full force of
th blow. Th carriage waa upset in the
twinkling of an eye and one horae fell
dead on tbe tracks. The other three
powerful gray attached to tba vehicle
atarted to run and dragged by tbem and
pushed by the force of the car, tha wrecked
carriage waa moved thirty or forty feet.
Agent Craig fell from hi aeat immediately
In front of th car and it passed com
pletely over hla body. Driver Pratt, In
falling, atruck the dead horae Immediately
in front of him and rolled off clear of th
car, thua escaping a similar fate. Prasl
dsnt Roosevelt, Governor Crana and Sec
retary Cortelyou were thrown together In
tha bottom of tbe carriage.
Almost iostsntly a score of men Jumped
to the heads of tba frightened horses and
atopped their further progress. Governor
Crane waa the first to get to hi feat, es
caping entirely unhurt. Hs turned I mm.
Clate!y to tha president, helped the latter